This paper explores the relationship between the urban cultural landscape of Bucharest and
the making of post-socialist Romanian national identity. As the capital of socialist Romania …

The Optimum Imperative examines architecture's multiple entanglements within the
problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia. Situated in the period loosely …

One of the major undertakings of the newly established Turkish nation-state was the making
of a modern bourgeois identity. A particularly important site for this project was K| z| lay …

Despite a slew of proposals to build a forest of skyscrapers and a tightly packed, money-
making city centre in its immediate vicinity, the Palace of Culture and Science–a 231 m (758 …

Amaç: Kişinin kimlik tanımlaması kendisi ile önemli diğer kişiler arasında ayrımlar
yapabilmesi ile gelişir ve bu ayrımlar kendisine ait saydığı nesneler, bazı alanlar ve yerleri …

Nell'ampia produzione dell'architetto americano Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012), alcuni
progetti risalenti alla prima metà degli anni Novanta del secolo scorso sono particolarmente …

This chapter seeks to present the decommunisation of urban spaces in two countries–
Poland and Ukraine. In the first part, the text identifies links between the nature, degree of …

This dissertation traces the concept of national memory through the five architectural spaces
that have housed the dead body of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: the bedroom in Dolmabahçe …

The erection of a new monument or toppling of an existing one is almost always a political
act, though naturally this is especially the case where a monument is of inherently political …

The “synthesis of the arts,” which usually referred to the integration of murals, sculptures and
reliefs into architecture, was a key aspect of art and architecture in many parts of the world …